Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:00 AM, Thursday October 15th 2020
Great to be starting the journey! Found organic perspective to be the most challenging, bit of a brain workout.
Used a 0.3mm pen but upgrading to 0.5mm soon
A ballpoint would’ve been preferable to a 0.3mm, by the way, but it’s of no concern if you’re planning to upgrade soon. Hi! Let’s take this one exercise at a time~
Starting with your superimposed lines, these look good. They’re smooth, properly lined up at the start, and of a consistent trajectory. There’s the occasional stiffness/wobble in your arcing ones, so I’ll quickly mention that it’s far more important for them to be smooth, than stick to the guideline, but I’m sure you already know that. The ghosted lines look quite confident, too, and the one issue they had (not starting at the correct starting point) is fixed by the planes exercise- nicely done. If you can, try to plot some start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes, though.
The table of ellipses exercise looks okay. They’re a little stiff, and a little same-y (vary their degrees/angles a little more, if you can), but it’s clear that your priority lies in their confidence. If there’s anything to do differently, it’s to ghost a little more, and, even more specifically, not to commit to the motion before you’re ready. If you do, it’ll be reflected in your lines. The ellipses in planes exercise is similar: mostly good, though every once in a while you’ll have an ellipse that strains to hit the 4 sides of the plane to the point that it becomes deformed. Nice job on the funnels exercise. The ellipses here are snug, and properly cut in half by the minor axis. Remember to go around them 2 full times, however, and see if you can lift, not flick, your pen off the page at the end of them.
Good job on the plotted perspective exercise- nice and clean. The rough perspective exercise is a bit of a mixed bag. The main issue with it is the linework- it’s not quite as confident as it was in the ghosted lines/planes exercise, but there’s no reason why this should be the case, as what you’re doing is essentially the same thing: drawing a line from point A to point B. That’s your unit of work, and it’s important to think of it in those terms always. On that same topic, be careful that each line is drawn once, also, regardless of how it turns out. If a line stops short, don’t extend it. If it’s incorrect, don’t correct it. It’s important to learn to live with your mistakes- you’ll be making a whole lot of them, always- indeed, if you want to improve, you must. Outside of that, all that’s left to talk about is your convergences. You have 2 sets at infinity, as you should, and 1 set that converges towards the VP. This last one starts off a little lacking, improves considerably by the first frame of page 2, and then is a little sloppy again. Frame 2 doesn’t even have extensions, and the lack of them is felt in frame 3, so try to be a little more patient if you can. The rotated boxes exercise looks good. The rotation is at times a little lacking, and the boxes not quite as snug as we’d like them to be, but I can tell that you’re trying on both accounts. I appreciate the size of your boxes, and the lineweight, and hatching (what little there is of it…), too. Finally, the organic perspective exercise is good. The scale doesn’t have quite the range we want, but what’s here is good. The foreshortening is mostly shallow, and the boxes do increase in size as they come towards the viewer.
Overall, this is a solid submission. Consider it complete, and feel free to move on to the box challenge.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
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